Arn Keeling
@arnkeeling.bsky.social
He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife https://www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-Price-of-Gold
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Arn Keeling
@arnkeeling.bsky.social
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Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned
Colonialism, corporate greed and lax regulation led to widespread pollution, particularly affecting Yellowknives Dene communities.
theconversation.com
Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today:
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Geneviève Bergeron
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Geneviève Bergeron
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte
Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique
This semester, for our Geography capstone course, I leaned hard into interactivity, in part as an antidote to LLMs, in part because I find classroom engagement key to meaningful learning. Using scenario-based learning, most classes were workshops, with outputs + assessment geared to this process /1
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This semester, for our Geography capstone course, I leaned hard into interactivity, in part as an antidote to LLMs, in part because I find classroom engagement key to meaningful learning. Using scenario-based learning, most classes were workshops, with outputs + assessment geared to this process /1
Just catching up on this delicious thread. 🍴 As a Westerner, I was always partial to sage in my bird dishes, but have leaned into savoury since moving to NL. Mount Scio savoury FTW!
Long shot: I'm looking for someone who might know more than I do about the herb Summer Savoury. It's central to Newfoundland cooking & apparently also to Mennonite food & I've more recently learned its a major ingredient in Jamaican food. What trade winds blew this herb to these different places?
December 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just catching up on this delicious thread. 🍴 As a Westerner, I was always partial to sage in my bird dishes, but have leaned into savoury since moving to NL. Mount Scio savoury FTW!
Dealing with some of the smaller abandoned mines around Yellowknife… finally.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.W.T. gov’t presents potential options to clean up abandoned mines near Yellowknife | CBC News
The N.W.T. government and federal government have been negotiating how to remediate the six abandoned mines around Yellowknife following the territory’s devolution in 2014. Responsibility wasn’t place...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Dealing with some of the smaller abandoned mines around Yellowknife… finally.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Flu shots are publicly covered and available without an appointment at most pharmacies. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Children’s hospitals face flood of flu visits as physicians urge Canadian families to get vaccinated | CBC News
An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could kee...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Flu shots are publicly covered and available without an appointment at most pharmacies. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
We’re helping daddy read!
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We’re helping daddy read!
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Absolutely not. Strike this down immediately before it can spread.
"Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology to its body-worn cameras."
Edmonton Police Department "is the first police department in the world to use these Axon devices."
#Alberta #Canada #Policing #Surveillance #Technology
Edmonton Police Department "is the first police department in the world to use these Axon devices."
#Alberta #Canada #Policing #Surveillance #Technology
Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology to its body-worn cameras.
www.eff.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Absolutely not. Strike this down immediately before it can spread.
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
I mean, great outcome, but why didn’t the government simply seize this asset in the public interest.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Best-case scenario': Hudson's Bay charter to remain in public hands after joint $18M bid | CBC News
Two of Canada's richest families appear to have been successful in their bid on the royal charter that formed Hudson's Bay about 355 years ago, putting an end to months of uncertainty over the documen...
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I mean, great outcome, but why didn’t the government simply seize this asset in the public interest.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
See also: university senior administrators.
One of the many reasons change is hard when it comes to better cities is that the ability to picture your city being and working very differently than it does now, aka “having vision,” is not nearly as common as we think. And it’s sadly not a prerequisite for leadership, although it should be.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
See also: university senior administrators.
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Word a read - brought back memories of hours of searching through 19th hard copies with no index and scrolling though endless rolls of micro-fiche back in the day before digitisation. See
www.mining-journal.com/mj-comment/o...
#MiningHistory
www.mining-journal.com/mj-comment/o...
#MiningHistory
One Hundred and Ninety Years of Mining Journal
Since August 29, 1835, Mining Journal has recorded the turning of history's wheel—from coal, iron, and steam to critical minerals, renewable energy, and AI—each age echoing the last in motive, ambiti...
www.mining-journal.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Word a read - brought back memories of hours of searching through 19th hard copies with no index and scrolling though endless rolls of micro-fiche back in the day before digitisation. See
www.mining-journal.com/mj-comment/o...
#MiningHistory
www.mining-journal.com/mj-comment/o...
#MiningHistory
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Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This year's theme is digital abuse.
Fewer than 40% of countries have laws protecting women from cyber harassment or cyber stalking. This leaves 44% of the world’s women and girls without access to legal protection.
Fewer than 40% of countries have laws protecting women from cyber harassment or cyber stalking. This leaves 44% of the world’s women and girls without access to legal protection.
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This year's theme is digital abuse.
Fewer than 40% of countries have laws protecting women from cyber harassment or cyber stalking. This leaves 44% of the world’s women and girls without access to legal protection.
Fewer than 40% of countries have laws protecting women from cyber harassment or cyber stalking. This leaves 44% of the world’s women and girls without access to legal protection.
Ok, it took me to the last day but got my donation in for this year's NiCHE fundraiser. If you can, support amazing digital scholarship and community-building in environmental #history and historical #geography by this unique organization!
Think it is amazing that we publish such high-quality content Monday - Friday (sometimes Saturday) every week?!?!
We can't keep doing this without you! Support our annual fundraising campaign NOW! Can you send $20 our way?
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#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
We can't keep doing this without you! Support our annual fundraising campaign NOW! Can you send $20 our way?
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ok, it took me to the last day but got my donation in for this year's NiCHE fundraiser. If you can, support amazing digital scholarship and community-building in environmental #history and historical #geography by this unique organization!
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3) "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" by @arnkeeling.bsky.social and John Sandlos - niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y...
#envhist #cdnhist #mininghistory #mining #histmed #indigenoushistory
#envhist #cdnhist #mininghistory #mining #histmed #indigenoushistory
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
3) "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" by @arnkeeling.bsky.social and John Sandlos - niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y...
#envhist #cdnhist #mininghistory #mining #histmed #indigenoushistory
#envhist #cdnhist #mininghistory #mining #histmed #indigenoushistory
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The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.
The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block with two of Canada's richest families —the Westons and Thomsons — starting the bidding at $18 million.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cou...
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cou...
Court approves Hudson's Bay plan to auction its royal charter; $18M bid expected
TORONTO - The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The HBC, ending as it began: putting profit before this land and its people. What a history lesson for all of us.
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from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
Geography in action! 😅
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Geography in action! 😅
Happening now! Great to hear the story around moving between political science and geography in the critical study of tech….
Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Memorial University on Friday!
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
"Becoming an AI Critic", with Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us) | Political Science
www.mun.ca
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happening now! Great to hear the story around moving between political science and geography in the critical study of tech….
The Price of Gold gets its first review!
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife by John Sandlos and Arn Keeling
Reviewed by Dawn Macdonald
www.theseaboardreview.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The Price of Gold gets its first review!
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
"Historian John Sandlos and geographer Arn Keeling present a thorough and compulsively readable analysis of the slow-motion disaster that has unfolded at Giant Mine."
@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/the-price-...
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Canada deserves the Fossil of the Day award, as I said a week ago - Canada has abandoned 1.5. This is confirmed by Climate Action Tracker.
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Canada deserves the Fossil of the Day award, as I said a week ago - Canada has abandoned 1.5. This is confirmed by Climate Action Tracker.
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Our paper in Nature (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) on political ecology of climate change adaptation in Nunatsiavut, environmental injustices, & barriers and limits to adaptation.”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06058-2 @profjamesford.bsky.social @labradorice.bsky.social
Political ecology of climate change adaptation in the Arctic: Insights from Nunatsiavut, Canada - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Political ecology of climate change adaptation in the Arctic: Insights from Nunatsiavut, Canada
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Our paper in Nature (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications) on political ecology of climate change adaptation in Nunatsiavut, environmental injustices, & barriers and limits to adaptation.”https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-06058-2 @profjamesford.bsky.social @labradorice.bsky.social
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Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Memorial University on Friday!
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
"Becoming an AI Critic", with Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us) | Political Science
www.mun.ca
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Memorial University on Friday!
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
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As Canadian history is put on the auction block this week, re-upping my article @ricochetmedia.bsky.social about why the HBC Collection belongs to Canadians, why it should be in a museum, and how Heritage Canada lacks the teeth to protect Canada's heritage
#cdnpoli
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#cdnpoli
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Despite requests from Indigenous leaders, HBC artifacts will not be returned
Those interested in the items have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements
ricochet.media
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
As Canadian history is put on the auction block this week, re-upping my article @ricochetmedia.bsky.social about why the HBC Collection belongs to Canadians, why it should be in a museum, and how Heritage Canada lacks the teeth to protect Canada's heritage
#cdnpoli
ricochet.media/indigenous/d...
#cdnpoli
ricochet.media/indigenous/d...